Minoston Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug, Outdoor On/Off Outlet Switch, ZWave Hub Required, Weather-Resistant, Built-in Repeater, Work with SmartThings, Wink, Alexa, Black(MP22Z)

Worked for about 12 months, the reception range is pretty poor, so you need to have it no more than 15 feet or so from the z-wave hub. Failed completely now, completely doesnt respond to and on/off commands.

Product connected to Vera Edge but get “Failed at: Setting Special Association”. Switch will still turn on and off but app thinks there are failed devices. Cannot find anything on Vera’s help about what a special association is. Resolve the special association error by changing Automatically configure to “No”

I now have three of these, and love that they just work. You just need to take care to keep the socket end out of any rain, otherwise it fills up with water. It paired easily with my ZWave network and remains connected even when quite far from the house. This has enabled me to put my pond on a schedule, and with additional automation turns the pump off when the water is low.

Nothing, used to control our deck lights when we come home at night. Only down side is to turn on and off are thru the app or alarm app that the zwave it thru.

Ive been trying to get some serious electrical monitoring going, sometimes also automations based switching, and these units have turned out to be my go-to for my outdoor applications. For the most part, I have one of these on every outdoor outlet in my home so I can capture electrical usage. I use Home Assistant for my home automation platform and generally prefer the Z-Wave protocol. When I first started buying these, the units were not fully enumerated in HAs Z-Wave-JS platform, but those issues have since been resolved. They are fully compatible with the energy monitoring features of HA and also work well for switching applications. The units have been generally reliable, quick to respond and meet most of my expectations. I have run into issues with devices that have a high startup/inrush current, these things are not compatible with this particular switch. When using them in these cases (e.g. air compressor, shop-vac, etc.), these units will pop and automatically turn off. This is probably good in some cases, but I am certain these situations are nowhere near the danger zone of popping breakers. Ive had to find other energy monitoring switches for these applications. Despite the limitation above, I have tested these units up to about 1200 watts with no troubles. They appear to handle serious electrical loads, even though they they dont deal with high inrush current well. One other con? As mentioned, I have several of these (about 8) and all of them do intermittently go offline for unknown reasons. I get unavailable events in HA several times a day. My Z-Wave network is very robust, so I know its not that, nor do I see this on any of my other 40 some-odd Z-Wave devices. Despite these events, this problem has never affected the operations of these devices. They continue to supply power and it hasnt (yet) interfered with any of my automations. Im guessing this might be a firmware fault, or some other issue, but it hasnt caused me any troubles. A few examples of how I use them? I switch on/off Christmas lights for the holidays, based on sunset and sunrise times, as well as time of day. Ive also started using these to control my block heaters for my vehicles. I can now apply a ton of intelligence to this by taking into account outdoor temperatures, specific times, work schedules and so forth. (Or, just start my block heater manually without going outside!) I also monitor heat tape on my home, allowing alerts if no electricity is used when temperatures are below certain values and the heat tape should be running. I also really like that these units monitor & report on over-voltage, over-current and general over-load situations. These events are enumerated in HA. I actually used these capabilities to troubleshoot a faulty extension cord recently, a situation that had escaped other diagnostics. You can almost think of it like a smart circuit breaker of sorts, a step well beyond standard breakers and even GFCI circuits. Overall, these are solid 4-star outdoor rated switches with built-in energy monitoring. Despite a few problems I have observed, they perform well for me and provide me with robust automation and energy capture capabilities. If youre looking for robust outdoor monitoring & switching capabilities based around Z-Wave, these arent a bad way to go!

Has worked the way its supposed to. Integrated with Alarm.com app.

I had a fairly easy time setting this up in SmartThings using the QR code provided with the unit. In SmartThings, I can see it as an outlet, and I can see the cumulative electricity used. In Google Home, I can only see it as an outlet that I can turn off or on. I dont see where the company that manufactures the unit has any app with additional features or information. So I think its just the information you get though whichever Z-wave home hub you use. But its staying connected and doing what I want it to do (which is tell me how much power my outdoor plug-in hybrid car outlet is using so I know my cost per mile).

I am using the newer series 700 Silicon Labs hub with Home Assistant, and this device allowed me to reliably connect to my pool house about 100 feet away through 2 walls. Had it out in very heavy rains and so far no issues with water.

The good: it connects to Home Assistant very nicely, and supports the S2 or non S2 protocols flawlessly. Its pretty straightforward to use, and theres plenty of verbose config documents with the item. The bad: It frequently bugs out. I couldnt identify why, but it will stop responding to Z wave commands after 15 or so hours. It requires restarting the device to get it to work wirelessly again. For this reason I returned mine.

I replaced a GE outdoor switch with this so I could get dimming of my resistive string lights. The GE never had a reception problem, but this dimmer does. I have 20 devices in my zwave network, so the mesh is pretty strong. The dimmer is just outside my patio door. Nearest other device is two rooms away. I expect it to work well but it loses connection. I will put another zwave device closer to it, but this is disappointing and worse than my other devices.